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Monday, 30 March 2015

Game of Thrones Star to Guest in Doctor Who!

Having
landed back in the UK fresh from touring the US, today Maisie Williams
sets foot on the Doctor Who TARDIS to take up a guest role in the hit
BBC One show that returns to our screens this Autumn.

Maisie has already found global fame and is renowned for her role as
Arya Stark in the international fantasy drama series Game of Thrones.

She also starred in the one-off docu-drama Cyberbully and was cast as
one of the leads of Carol Morley’s drama The Falling. As well as beinga
three-time Screen Actors Guild Awards nominee, in February of this year
she was awarded with a Shooting Star Award at the Berlin Film Festival.

On her first day on set Maisie Williams said, “I’m so excited to be
working on Doctor Who as it’s such a big and important part of British
Culture. I can’t wait to meet the cast and crew and start filming,
especially as we’ll be shooting not too far from my home town.”

Steven Moffat, lead writer and Executive Producer, added, “We’re
thrilled to have Maisie Williams joining us on Doctor Who. It’s not
possible to say too much about who or what she’s playing, but she is
going to challenge the Doctor in very unexpected ways. This time he
might just be out of his depth, and we know Maisie is going to give him
exactly the right sort of hell.”

Bursting with drama, wit and heart, the show continues filming with
two period adventures – ‘The Girl Who Died’ written by Jamie Mathieson
and Steven Moffat, and ‘The Woman Who Lived’ by Catherine Tregenna.
Starring Peter Capaldi (The Doctor) and Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald),
the duo continue to time travel through epic adventures Directed by Ed
Bazalgette (BBC One’s 18th Century drama Poldark).

Doctor Who has had a decade of success since its re-launch and is one
of BBC One’s most highly regarded dramas. The much-loved brand is
already a phenomenon delivering on a global scale, with the last series’
(series 8) consolidated average at 7.4 million.

The BBC Cymru Wales produced drama will return to BBC One this Autumn with further casting to be announced in due course.